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Shootings at Burnaby Cactus Club, Surrey Mac's store send two men to hospital

Burnaby RCMP has closed down a portion of Kingsway Avenue this afternoon while they investigate the shooting of a man in his 30s inside a local restaurant.

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METRO VANCOUVER - Mounties are investigating two separate shooting incidents in Surrey and Burnaby that sent two men to hospital Tuesday.

Mounties say several Burnaby patrons of a Kingsway Cactus Club restaurant were "extremely fortunate" that they weren't injured when a targeted shooting Tuesday afternoon sent a man in his early 30s to hospital with non-fatal injuries.

Just before 2 p.m., another man shot the victim while he dined with several male friends in the popular eatery, according to RCMP. Mounties don't know how many shots were fired before the suspect fled the area on foot.

"The restaurant had several patrons inside at the time of the shooting," Lower Mainland RCMP spokesman Sgt. Peter Thiessen said in a news release. "It is extremely fortunate that no innocent bystanders were injured."

The victim, who is expected to survive, was sent to hospital and investigators still had Kingsway between McKay and Willingdon avenues shut down as of 4 p.m.

Meanwhile, one man was reportedly shot at a Surrey Mac's store in the Guildford area near 152nd Street and 100th Avenue around 11 p.m.

The victim was taken to Royal Columbian Hospital in stable condition according to news reports.

Officers from a number of Burnaby RCMP units interviewed witnesses near the Metrotown-area Cactus Club and Vancouver police and a RCMP canine unit helped search for the suspect, according to a release.

No arrests have been made.

Though it had all the hallmarks of the gang shootings that marred Metro Vancouver during 2009's drug war, Thiessen said "it is not clear as to whether there are any gang connections at this stage."